Posted on 03/02/2020 1:03:33 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: I don’t know. Sometimes I just have to laugh. Like Larry King. Larry King, who has never gotten over what I did to him, and I didn’t do anything to him other than wipe him out. He’s never gotten over it. Now Larry King is working at someplace called Russia Today, and he claims I’m never gonna get a Pulitzer while he’s working at Russia Today, because I start talking about things like the coronavirus and I don’t know what I’m talking about and inside the radio business nobody respects me and I’ve never gonna get a Pulitzer.
Larry, Pulitzers don’t go to radio people. Pulitzers go to print journalists, of which I am not one. I couldn’t win a Pulitzer if I wanted to. And now that I have the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Larry, I don’t need a Pulitzer. I don’t need a step down to get some freaking Pulitzer award which, you know, the New York Times got a Pulitzer for all of the lies on the Russia hoax that they told. That’s how valid a Pulitzer Prize is today.
A Pulitzer Prize, CNN got one. CNN got a Pulitzer Prize for a bogus story that they were led to by James Comey. Let me explain this one again real quick. If 2017, before Trump’s been inaugurated. Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan have a meeting in Obama’s office. They discuss how to get the dossier into the mainstream news. They decide, let’s report some of it to President-Elect Trump.
So, Comey, Brennan, and I think Clapper have a meeting with Trump at his office in Trump on January 6th, the next day. After the meeting Comey asks Clapper and Brennan to leave, says he needs some alone time with Trump. This all documented, by the way. It’s in numerous books, congressional testimony. Comey then tells Trump about the golden showers. He says, Mr. President, you need to know the kind of things being said out there so that you get these in the intelligence briefings, you need to know what’s being said.
And Trump, when they told him, when Comey said there’s a story out there that you’ve hired prostitutes to urinate on a bed that Obama slept in in Moscow, the first thing Trump thought was that they’re setting him up for being blackmailed, ’cause he didn’t do it, it’s ridiculous, didn’t hire prostitutes, period, didn’t do it. And Trump, what the hell is this? And then Trump said, look, my God, you can’t let this get out, my wife, oh, my God. This is crazy, this is stupid.
Comey, when the meeting is over calls Clapper and according to congressional testimony from Comey, says, “Mission accomplished.” At that point Clapper called CNN, who would hire him a few days later. Clapper, the director of national intelligence for Obama, James Clapper, bald-headed guy, called CNN and said the president was just told about the golden showers story.
CNN then runs a story, the president of the United States today was informed about the Steele dossier, the gold showers story where he hired prostitutes. They got a Pulitzer for that. That’s what a Pulitzer Prize is worth, Larry. Zilch, zero, nada.
Anyway, greetings, and welcome back. Great to have you, El Rushbo, executing assigned host duties flawlessly. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program’s 800-282-2882.
Now let’s get into some of the audio sound bites where I can really demonstrate, I don’t know what you’d call this, media malpractice. I mean, it’s more serious than that. The United States media is literally attempting to incite a panic. They are trying to make it — do you know how many coronaviruses cases are in the U.S. — and don’t misunderstand me on this now. Do not you dare misunderstand. They’re also lying that I said that this thing is no different than the common cold. That’s not what I said. When I said, folks, this is the common cold, I was talking about the number of cases. Nobody had died from it at the time I said this.
In the U.S., 86 cases, two deaths. Eighty-six cases of the coronavirus, two deaths. The number of people that are gonna die today from the flu, it will be in the thousands. The high hundreds to thousands. That’s how many people will die from the flu today. “Is that okay?” I’m not saying anything’s okay. Do not put words in my mouth. Didn’t say that. I’m saying a little perspective here. So when I said that the coronavirus is the common cold, I was talking about the lack of number of cases, the fact that nobody had died from it. And I said it’s the common cold in the U.S. Of course, in China it’s not the common cold.
The number of cases in China has peaked apparently. At least the reported cases are coming down. And this, by the way, I think is a factor in the market too. Tim Cook saying we think the worst has happened, we’re ramping back up for production purposes in China, our assembly lines. That’s gonna have a positive impact on the market.
So we have 89,000 confirmed cases, 45,000 people have recovered from it, 3,048 deaths of which two are in the United States. Yet we have the American media willingly, knowingly attempting to create a panic. And in the process, they want you to believe that your president doesn’t care, that he thinks it’s a hoax, that he doesn’t even think coronavirus is real. That’s what they want you to believe.
They’re trying to tell you that President Trump doesn’t even think it’s real. He thinks it’s a hoax made up by the media. It’s the epitome of irresponsible. It’s such a high degree of irresponsibility, it doesn’t even warrant shouting or losing your temper over. It’s so bad that you can’t understand it. What the media is doing is so bad that it defies civilized description.
So let’s go to Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd is interviewing Vice President Pence on Sunday on Meet the Press. He plays a montage of people correctly analyzing what the Democrats are doing and always do and then calls it gross.
TODD: I wanna play for you what some of your allies have said about the coronavirus. Here’s — including the president’s son and the RNC chair. Take a listen, sir.
RUSH ARCHIVE: The coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump.
RONNA MCDANIEL: Democrats are using this for their political gain to try and stoke fear in the American people, which is shameful, wrong, and I think un-American.
DONALD TRUMP JR.: For them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump’s streak of winning is a new level of sickness.
TODD: None of this seems to match the facts. What facts are there that Democrats are doing this? This implies some sort of political motivation, which is kind of gross.
RUSH: Chuck, I said it’s not even losing my temper over, but you make it really close. Chuck, it was last week that you, your colleagues and the media all talked about how this might be now an opening for the Democrats. What is an opening for the Democrats, Chuck? People getting sick. The coronavirus. A new illness might be an opening for the Democrats.
Does not Larry King KNOW?
Don’t forget Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer for not reporting the Stalin-induced Ukrainian Famine.
Duranty did not not report it, he reported that there was no famine.
He doesn't understand that the danger is that the healthcare system will be overwhelmed and collapsed if enough people are infected. It happened in China. It's happened in Iran. It's happening in Lombardy. It's being mentioned as possibly happening in Washington State. I read a news story that one county in Washington state is buying a hotel to house and isolate the sick. That's how worried they are.
The only way out is to institute HARSH quarantine measures such as what China and Singapore are doing. Severe limitations on travel and personal movement.
It is easy for media to take Rush off his game. Just screw his words around and call him dastardly, and he spends at least a whole show defending himself. Remember: Sticks and stones...
He explained his thinking on that long ago, 25 years ago or more.
If he doesn't deal with nasty accusations immediately and fulsomely, they'll stick and become established fact. That's why he devotes a lot of air time to refuting them and hitting back at the liars who promulgate them.
Quite correct.
In addition, as he reminds long time listeners, he has thousands of new listeners tuning in on a regular basis and it’s important that he explain to these new listeners exactly what the MSM tactics are.
He always begs long time listeners patience and forgiveness for this.
I think Rush has learned to counter-punch a bit better from Trump.
Trump declared the coronavirus a public health emergency while Red China was still trying to cover things up, and close to two weeks before the UN came up with their Newspeak designation “COVID-19”. So how is Rush “minimizing” anything?
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Rush has brought up the killing and raping of Christians in Nigeria only to have it ignored by the media. Why ? Here’s the reason
Former Nigerian Minister Faults Obama for Slaughter of Christians
Church Militant ^ | 2/21/20 | Martina Moyski Femi Fani-Kayode, Nigeria’s former Minister of Culture and Tourism, faults the Obama administration for backing 2015 presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim. Buhari won the nation’s presidency and afterward, Fani-Kayode said, went soft on Boko Haram. “What Obama, John Kerry and Hilary [sic] Clinton did to Nigeria by funding and supporting [Muhammadu] Buhari in the 2015 presidential election and helping Boko Haram in 2014/2015 was sheer wickedness,” said Fani-Kayode, the country’s former Minister of Culture and Tourism. “The blood of all those killed by the Buhari administration, his Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram over the last five years are on their hands.”
Compare what Rush says versus what President Trump and VP Pence say. Rush says stuff like "this is going to be nothing mark my words...it's just like (flu, swine flu, ebola etc)...we're going to find out that it kills not very many".
Compare this to public statements and press conferences: "Serious threat. Taking it seriously. Potential to widespread cases. Prepare for the worst hope for the best. "
Our government is taking it seriously and going all out to stop it because they seem to recognize that if they don't it's a huge threat. Rush mean time seems to dip and roll into "it's a big nothing burger" talk.
I listened to him and did not get that impression, particularly when I listened to everything in context an not soundbites from the left. Transcripts bear that out too.
I remember when Larry King, as a young man, was run out of Miami. He was scum then as well.
I remember Larry King.
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